Friday, June 29, 2012

I have reciently found that I don't have enough space on Blogger for all my interests. That is, all the photos take up space in my Picasa album, which only gives me 1GB of free space. And my Drawings Blog takes up my priority space (not to mention it has had almost 70,000 views, so it's my most popular blog). So that means that I need to free up space so that I can continue to post on that blog.

For that reason, I'm switching to Weebly for my thoughts blog. Here is an overview of what I created through Weebly.

Here is a close up of the header.

So, as you can see, I've added many more pages to my site that I had blogs, such as, Girl Stuff (things girls talk about, duh)

No, this is where I blog about things that interest me that guys might not find that interesting. Just so they don't have to see that I've done a post then find out that I've blogged about my recient favorite nail polish!

There is also my Media page where I post my YouTube videos. Tasty Nibbles is where I post recipies that I've made, or enjoyed, and pictures of the end results. Who knows what other blogs I'll add to this site that I don't have up now.

But for those of you who follow all my blogs, You'll see that I have a Photography, Drawings, Other Artwork, and Daremo Illistruation (formaly known as COLLABORATION. It's under the "more" section). I also need to add just a "Thoughts" blog so that I can just post without sticking it into any other blog.

Oh, and I've added Books and Nooks, which is where I'll be spending most of my time updating. Lol, I lover reading, so you'll see lots of book reviews on there. I also post a WICR, "What I'm Currently Reading", on top of the flower picture and attach a link to the author's website/blog. This is currently my favorite blog. Well, it's tied with "Girl Stuff".

I also find that this looks more professional, though I don't know why I would want it to look more professional. I just do.

So, let me know what you think about my new site, and since it's through Weebly, it doesn't have a Blogger (as in BLOGGER blogger) follow button. That I know of yet. If you now any sort of follow mechanisim that Weebly has, without upgrading to a pro account, please let me know.

Or if you have any helpful tips, or things that could make my site better, come back to this blog and leave me a comment about what you think needs changing/added.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Deep in the Norwegian fjords, the Viking ship comes to shore. Mikkel, the prideful young leader, is home, but Briana O'Toole faces a new, uncertain life. What will happen to her and the other Irish taken as prisoners?Soon Bree feels sure that Mikkel is hiding a dark secret from his father. When Bree finds mysterious messages that seem meant for her, she longs to be with she isthe respected daughter of an Irish chieftain. But the cold winds of autumn sweep down the Aruland Fjord, and it's people wait for the last ship out. Bree wonders, Can my brother Devin possibly bring ransom before winter?In the midst of a growing threat, will Bree and Devin find God's courage to win? Who is their invisible friend? And what does ti mean to be truly free?

Bree shows that being a mortal slave doesn't mean that God can't use her for His purpose; she is free in her spirit. And that because her life isn't hers, but God's, she is more free than Mikkel, who was dishonest in trading with his fathers' best friend, and now holds a dark secret, on that he wont tell to anyone.

Because Bree laughed at a girl of some importance, and rudeness, she creates an enemy who will be ruthless if Bree ever crosses paths with her.

Bree becomes Mikkels' mother's slave. It isn't a bad job, being a slave in the house of Mikkel's mighty father, except that Bree has to take care of Grandmother, who awakens each night because she's tormented by nightmares (it doesn't go into detail, so no graphic writing). Bree sleeps in the stable, where she connects with the animals, but it also means that she IS different than the rest of the house.
Bree mostly helps to make food, and it is serving the family that she meets Mikkel's older brother, who taunts Bree and Mikkel; Bree by tripping her up at the table, and Mikkel because he's his younger brother.
Mikkel's mother, grandmother, and grandfather come to know Jesus after Bree reads the Bible to Grandmother, and Jesus peace chases away her bad dreams, and finally allows the family to sleep in peace.
Mikkel's father comes to know Jesus after he is diagnosed with leprosy, and Jesus heals him.

Because Bree has nowhere to run, she does not try to escape, and earns the trust of the family to go walking. While on these walks, she finds written proof that her little sister is still alive, and close by. She continually seeks to find her little sister, and even sees her a few times, and wonders how to free her.

Meanwhile, Devin gets thrown into prison because Mikkel claimed that Dev is still his slave, he had just run away. Devin came back to free Bree, and has brought ransom money, which is taken away after he is captured. While Dev is in prison, which is dug underground in the dirt, acquires a nasty cough, and Bree is afraid that Devin will die in the prison. Driven to free Devin from the prison, she learns from a type of silversmith how to create jewelry from a few pieces of silver she has kept for emergency. This definitely qualifies! When she makes the necklace, she goes to the prison to show Devin, who advises her to keep it hidden so no one can claim it to be theirs, and to keep it for the right time to free her brother.

If I remember correctly, Devin gets out of prison, because of Bree's insisting to Mikkel that Dev get moved or he'll die, and regains health, and manages to free Bree.

But Bree surprises everyone with her decision... read the book to find out how it ends, I shall not give the ending away!

Rating 4/5. For children ages 11-14, though older kids can read them, but it's geared for these ages.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Bree and another young prisoner make a daring escape from the Viking ship. Soon they face a physical and spiritual battle for survival on a Norwegian mountainside. What will they eat? Where can they hide? How will they fin the courage to win? Leading the search is a prideful young Viking Mikkel who was certain that Bree stole his bag of silver coins. Can she forgive the people who changed her life? And what about Mikkel as he started to wonder, Is the god of these Irish Christians really more powerful than our own Vikings gods?

Bree escapes with her friend, Lil, into the woods, with little on their backs but the clothes on their backs. Because Lil is only eight years old, they have to travel slower than Bree thinks is safe, and they have to don disguises, hide in caves, and catch their own fish. All seems well, what with Mikkel not seeming to be following them, when Lil fall ill. Bree must choose weather to leave Lil, and get help at the seaport, their destination, or to go back to Mikkel. For, while they were slaves, they were treated well, and were warm.

Bree ends up getting caught by Mikkel, and because of his promise to protect her, didn't punish her. However, he didn't believe that she didn't steal his bag of silver coins. She proves him wrong by helping him catch the person who stole the coins.

Mikkel prays to Bree's God for the first time, Bree is angry at God for answering his prayer, and not hers. She feels like she, because she wants freedom, and that she is a stronger Christian, that her prayers overrule Mikkel's. What she doesn't realize, is that because of her escape, Mikkel takes his first step towards God. She too learns that God doesn't always answer prayers the way we want.

I think that there was a lack of movement on Bree's side of the story, but the Devin's side of the story makes up for it. A little.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Recently, I've been craving some new books to read. So I went to my local Christian book store, and made a bee-line to the teen fiction area and wrote down all the names/covers that caught my attention to request from my library. While these book aren't novels, and aren't targeting older teens, they are great books, and I though they were worth reviewing.

I love Ireland, and my true name is Irish for "Crown" or "Party". I love Celtic music, and the one place I want to visit before I die is Ireland. So of course I had to pick up these books. I wasn't disappointed.

Now it's hard to say exactly when I originally read these books for the first time, but it will have been over 3 years ago. I enjoyed them as much this time round, as I did the first time I read them. I'll just get into the review. Keep in mind, I'm no writer, so my views on how the book was written may be different than most.

This is book 1 in Lois Walfrid Johnson's series "The Viking Quest".﻿

Caution: Contains Spoilers

When Briana O'Toole rescues a stranger from drowning, she doesn't realize that her actions may have put her family and neighbors in danger. Then, in one harrowing day, Viking raiders capture Bree and her brother Devin and take them away from their home in Ireland.All of the Irish prisoners are at the mercy of Mikkel, the proud young leader of the Vikings. When he separates Bree and Devin, Bree sails to Norway on the Viking longship. Devin travels the dangerous road home. What will they discover about living with the courage to win? How can they change what is happening to them? Can they trust their all-powerful God, even in life-or-death situations?

While kids of all ages will enjoy reading these books, I would suggest the age group to read these, and really enjoy them, would be between 11-14. No younger, as the characters do change ages, and by the fifth book are getting closer to their twenty's, so they deal with deeper spiritual and emotional challenges. Not enough to ban your kids from reading them until their older, just no younger than 11.

For younger kids, Bree shows how faith as a 12 year-old girl can change, and help you, when everything looks hopeless. She goes through a lot of stuff in this book, and deals with hatred for Mikkel, who refuses to believe that she'll be nothing but a slave for the rest of her life.

Being an Irish lass, her fiery spirit will not be quelled without a fight, and that's what she gives. At every turn, she defies Mikkel, mostly with the fact that Mikkel believes in no god.

Bree and Devin were both captured by Mikkel and his crew, but were taken on different boats. When Bree is given the chance to go free, she gives her freedom it to Devin, who escapes into the forest to go back to Ireland. Bree always wanted to see what lay on the other side of the waters, but is she willing to make the sacrifice? That is where book 2: The Mystery of the Silver Coins comes in...

Monday, April 2, 2012

The fourth day at the Collage was the best day. I managed to complete my Terminator head, as well as get further on my Dragon.

I finally felt like I had the program under control, and could function without hicups like I had had before this. I learned how to mesh different pieces of clay together so that I can get the correct shapes.

Here is the dragon that I finished with. Mind you that it's uncompleted, but the only reason I'm not continuing, is because I don't have the program.

As far as the Terminator head goes, I finished (to the best of my limited abilities) it off. We got taught how to apply materials--metals, rough textures--to the clay.
I finished the human side of the head, including the eye, eyebrow and eyelashes.﻿ On the cyborg side of the head, I applied 4-7 different metals to give it a realistic feel. The lit up parts of the head are just done with paint, much to everyone's surprise. Take a look.

I didn't take a picture of the back of the head, because there is really nothing to see.

The final thing we learned was to render videos that show the models in 3D mode. Here are the two videos, that I rendered, one of the dragon and one of the Terminator head. Sorry for the low quality, but that is how Blogger's video uploader is.

So this is what I get to see as I'm working on it, but within ZBrush, you can rotate the model any which way you want.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Day three held more of the same stuff that went on in Day 2; working on our main project some more. Since I was finished with sculpting my head, I went into painting it. First we got instruction on how to paint in ZBrush, than we got to apply it to our projects.

I worked on the human side of Terminator first, because I knew what I wanted to do. I worked on getting the skin tones correct, which was a challenge at first because there weren't as many options for blending as there is in Photoshop. It was quite hard to get the correct dark tones, as well as blending tones from the lips to the skin. In fact, I didn't even use a blend option to mix the skin tones together. I just used pale shades of color.

The hair was a completely different matter. This isn't even the color I wanted, but it is what I ended up getting, as her skin is way to pale for her to have dark hair. Though, most redheads do have paler skin...

The low parts of the metal side of the head I painted black to look like it dips in more than what it really is. This is what I finished with at the end of the day.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Today, fellow Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Wizards, Ninja, Other People, Geese, Friends, and Rabbit Extermination crew, was way more fun than yesterday. Today, I finally got the hang of ZBrush. Not that I know everything--oh no, so far from that--but I feel like I can get around ZBrush without having the teacher tell me how to get everywhere/everything.

I started the day with a penguin. Yes, a penguin. He's so cute! I love him! I may finish him, but I'm not counting on it, as I have lots to do in just two days.

This is the first stage of the penguin, Humfrey. Ignore the circles on the screen, they are just my brush.

This is what Humfrey looks like when he's turned into clay.

Side view

I did Humfrey in about half an hour. I also worked on the dragon some more, but ended up forgetting to take a picture of it *smacks self on the head*.

The next thing we did was a head sculpture. This time we were to copy a picture and replicate it to the best of our abilities. We were given a head, male, that we were supposed to transform. I choose to do a female Terminator. So I spent the next long while working on this male head, trying and trying to convert it into a female. I looked for a brush in the brush menu, and saw that there was a female head that I could click and drag into the program. Feeling quite stupid, I did that, and trashed my other sculpture.

I then found some reference pictures, and started whacking, pulling, smoothing, squashing at the head.

This is what I came up with at the end of the day (about 4 hours) It's not quite finished, the hair still needs work, and I need to put in here eye, plus some more stuff.

Front view

Left side view

Right side view

Back view

Close up of front view

Close up of 3/4 view.

So that is what I did today.

I quite enjoyed putting in all the detail, but I would like to change a few things, like her eye. She has no 'offical' eye.

That's all I'll say, because if I do anymore, I'll have been on a computer for about 7 hours :)

This year, I went into bootcamp with a little more confidence, as well as expectations. I also went in having two friends alongside me. Well, not quite "friends". I met two guys on my online school who are also going to bootcamp. One is taking a photography mission, and the other one is in my class. Both are great guys, and it's nice to have someone to have lunch with that are Christians.

Anyhoo, the mission I'm taking is the ZBrush (pronounced zed-brush) course. It's essentially digital clay. You can take any shape, and mold it into whatever you want, without the mess, stench, hassle of clay.

The day started off with introductions that went around the room, than we launched into sculpting a head. We could do a human head, or any type of humanoid head. I had so much trouble with the first half of the class; I just couldn't keep up with the rest of the class. It didn't help that my teacher is a freelancer worker, so he's not part of the collage, therefore he uses some... French, let me say. In other words, he uses some colorful language. The only downer so far. I like the program so much I went and downloaded the 30-day trial for ZBrush.
I must say that this is the pre-clay stage that is one of the ways to get base for large objects. I did a dragon in the trial version of the program, but it looks more like a cross between a horse, deer and a, middlebuff. No I don't know what the last thing is. Anyhoo, here is what I came up with.

On the upside, I've come to produce two different sculptures so far, though they aren't completed. Both needs lots of attention to detail, but I'll show you guys anyway. Here are the sculptures that I did in class.

This is the alien head. I didn't have time to take other pictures of other sides of his head, but this is one of two heads I made. The other one, which I liked way better, I saved over with this one by mistake.

This is what I've completed of my dragon so far. I probably spent 3-4 hours on this sucker. And I don't know how to feel about it. Whether I like it, or hate it, is a mystery. The front version of the head is atrocious, so I need to work on that.

But that is day one of four. I'll do an update on my progress tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Hello, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Wizards, Ninja, Other People, Geese, Friends, and Rabbit Extermination crew.
I know I've been really bad with doing posts on this blog, but this one will (hopefully) be worth the update.

It has to do with...
*gulps*
*staged whisper*R a b b i t s . . .

About how they seem to be FOLLOWING ME AROUND!!! THEY ARE EVIL!!

(fake) Disclaimer: If you love rabbits, and/or are affiliated with them, I feel sorry for you, and will sick a goose on you to rid you of the parasite that has taken over your mind, and is now controlling you.

(real) DISCLAIMER: This is a fun joke that is between a few people. I'm not saying that anyone with these pictures/company's are bad, or wrong. It is a joke for a few of us, and I wanted to share it with them. No offence to anyone.

I know it's getting nearer to Easter, but why does the whole "Rabbit taking over the entire world scheme" haveto happen? It doesn't, you say?Well here are just a few picture of real evidence that one of the top spy's of *GRIT found out.

So, dog's are just as gullible as we think... (this has no personal reflection on my opinions of dogs)

The world is trying to get us to build things for "them"...

And Garfield knows that something is wrong with them... why do you think he keeps on trying to get rid of John's slippers?

Photo Credit: Jim Davis

And the comic strip (also created by Jim Davis) US Acers, is definitely blinded by the effects of the bunny's... Everyone knows that it's Ninja, not Ninjas, and, Bunny and Ninja do NOT belong in the same sentence with each other.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

I know I haven't done a post on this blog for quite some time, but I thought I'd do a quick update.

This is for artists who try and make their drawings look like photographs.

For those of you who work off of digital pictures, and draw pictures to make them look like a photograph; here is a post for you. This is what I do to make the drawings come to life (other than draw in the first place).

Do the drawing first time around, then when you've finished, scan it into your computer. Try not to use a camera as it morphs the picture.

Than in a program that you can place two images in one document (GIMP will work and it's free, or you can use Photoshop if you have it), place both images together, the drawing over top of the picture.

Make the drawing the same size as the picture, and compare the images, your drawing to the original picture.

See what needs to be changed and then take the drawing and change it.Do this multiple times, until you're satisfied with your drawing.

I almost always do this (personally I only do it with people drawings).

There we go. That's all there is to it. Do that and you will see major changes in your drawing. Note that it may take more time than you would usually take to do a drawing, so never give up, and give it your all.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

If you haven't already read the first part of this post, please read it here.

TFK SIGNING!!!

So the Newsboys came back for an encore, which they played 2 songs instead of one, one of them being Jesus Freak from Tait's dcTalk days. After they left the stage completely, the lights came on and us VIP'rs got rounded up, and we headed back to the locker room. We all took our previous seats, and Eldra and I started chatting with the couple beside us, whom we talked with before. We all kind of spazzed. Then the announcer came in. "Ok, guys," he said, "I'm going to try to talk quieter because of how loud it was, but since TFK is tired, can we all stay in our seats as they come around? Thanks." He then exited the room. Eldra and I looked at each other and squealed. I frantically gathered my artwork, than realized that the people next to the door would some of the last people to meet TFK. I thought quickly, and told Eldra that that was where I wanted to be because, if we were at the end of the 'line/circle' we would have more time to talk with them without holding the other people up. I asked the couples around us if they didn't mind trading spots with us. Because all of us were kind of giddy about meeting them, it was quite easy to barter with them.

Then TFK entered the room.
It exploded with quieted cheers.
Trevor McNevan led the way, stopping and chatting with every person, some people longer than others, as did Steve, Joel and Ty. When they got halfway around the room, Ty got talking with a couple of people and got left behind. Trevor, Steve and Joel arrived at the couple next to us while Ty was still half way across the room ^_^ Lol.

Trevor finished talking with the couple, and turned towards Eldra and I. "Hey guys! Oooh, rocking the TFK," he said, smiling as he glanced over our attire. I was wearing the TFK t-shirt I acquired at YC Alberta 2010, while Eldra was wearing my TFK hoodie. Eldra and I both laughed and shook hands with all three of them, swapping introductions. We both got out our newly bought t-shirts for him, Joel and Steve to sign, which they did. We also asked them to sign the posters of them (which, ironically, was the same picture as the one on the t-shirts...). Meanwhile Ty just made it past the three-quarter mark of the room. I decided to start showing them the drawings. The cool part is Eldra got most of their reaction on video so I'll try to repeat it word-for-word.

I started with Joel. I first told him that he got to choose a drawing to take back home with him, then displayed the drawings. A gasp escaped Joel, while Trevor laughed in amazement. He looked up at me and asked, 'Can I seriously take one?" I reassured him that he could take one. This is the one he took. ->

I asked him if he could then sign the other drawing. "Absolutely," he replied, taking the cap off his pen. "That looks just like him too," Trevor said, pointing to the drawing that I wanted signed. I handed the other drawing to Joel as he repeated Trevor by saying, "And that looks just like me too". Trevor and Eldra laughed at his imitation. "That's awesome. You are seriously talented," Trevor said. Here is where I wish I said 'Thank you', but instead I said, "Well, like Manafest said, 'I'm created to create'." :/

"So here's Steve," I said, displaying these two drawings. "Yeeeah," Trevor laughed out as I congratulate Steve, whose wife just gave birth do his second daughter. "Thank you," he said before looking at the drawings. He examined them as I explained different things about them. Trevor laughed behind his hand. "She even nailed the hair..." he said quietly, just as I explained that hair is quite hard for me to do. Steve chose the upper drawing, then signed the other one. Joel looked at the back of the his drawing and noticed that the date it was completed on was recent. I told him that all the drawings were done in the past two weeks.

Trevor thoughtfully asked if I had a card. Embarrassed, I told them that I do, but didn't have any on me, and the pieces of paper that I did write my email/blog address on were in my friends bag. So embarrassing!! Trevor said that I needed to write something down in case they ever needed something else done... (wow) That meant that Trevor asked me to give him my email...never thought I'd see the day...

I saw that Ty still hadn't made his way over to us so I moved onto Trevor's pieces. I gave him the option of choosing between a drawing and a painting.

A smile appeared on his face as he took the painting in his hands. "It looks way better, man..." he started to say but trailed off as he saw the drawing. Wow, he mouthed as he moved closer to me to study the drawing. "Those veins are rocking, wow! This is crazy!" he said, touching the veins on the drawing.

"So you have the choice of a drawing or a painting," I said, thinking he was going to take the drawing. "Well, this is on a canvas, so I don't want to take it if you want it," he said hesitantly, shifting the painting in his hand. "Oh, trust me, I can do it again," I said quickly. "Well, if that's ok then I'll take this one," he said, looking down at the painting. Eldra suggested that I write my email on the back of the painting, so I did that as Trevor signed the drawing for me.

And this is where I almost just 'talked' or 'babbled' as I like to say. Eldra said I didn't talk all that much, but I know I was just rambling! But I'm blaming it on it being past 11pm, my wounded tongue (I bit it really hard right after the TFK concert. It bled a lot!), and the start of a cold. That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

A funny thing that I continue to laugh at is that when Trevor gave me his marker to write my email and blog on the back of his painting, I wrote both of them down, gave the painting back to him, but didn't give him the marker back. So as we're talking, I, always having to close pens after using them, struggled to pull the cap off of the marker. When I finished attempting to pull the cap off, I hand it back to Trevor, telling him that he put it on too tight. LOL!! The funny part is that I didn't notice that I was trying to twist the cap off ^_^

I love this drawing so much it's my profile
here on blogger ^_^

I don't remember what happened next, because Eldra stopped filming, but I think that Trevor excused himself to talk with the remaining two people that were waiting. But what happened after I will NEVER forget!! The best reaction to a drawing I've EVER gotten!!

Ty came over to see what all the commotion was about. Steve showed him the drawing I did of him. "Oh WOW!" he said, laughing, a huge smile on his face. "Dude, those are, wow, those are even better looking..." He trailed off because he was laughing so hard (in amazement).
"Ty, you're not left out," I said, taking out the remaining two drawings. "Are you kidding me?" he asked. "But there's one you have to take because you can't sign it 'cuz there's no room," I admitted. He immediately sobered up, pushing a dreadlock aside. "'K. Deal." He shrugged, looked over at the camera and gave it a confused half-smile half-"I'm scared" look.
"Ok so there's this, and this." I pulled out both the drawings. "Oh my gosh, WOW! Holy smokes, that looks awesome!" he exclaimed, a shocked look on his face. Trevor looked over from where he was talking with the two fans. "Old-school, Ty," Trevor laughs before turning back. "Yeah, that's me before the 'dreads." Ty pointed to the older drawing.

"So you have to take this one, otherwise you have to sign your cheek," I stated. A bigger grin expanded on his face "Ok, deal! That's awesome, I can't believe...wow! How long does it take you to do one of those?"

﻿

Ty before his dreadlocks
The one he signed
for me.

﻿ It was there that my mind completely blanked on me. I told him that it depends on the drawing. Ones like the Trevor drawing took me anywhere from a couple of hours up to two days. "That's it??" Ty said. "Dude, she got it man."
"This one I completed in less than two hours! SO EASY!" I said. Ty dipped his head in amazement "Your kidding me?!"
I told him that I was doing this one again, I loved it so much. "Yeah, yeah, do another! That's awesome." Ty encouraged. He then asked for my name. When I told him, he said he recognized me from some pictures on Facebook. That is where the video ended.

Joel and Steve joined Trevor to talk with the remaining two people. Ty took the drawing in his hand to look at it closer. He kept on saying how much it looked like him. "Some people who draw, can get the drawings to look good, but there is something missing in their drawings," Ty said thoughtfully. I explained to him that it's because most people put the eyes in first because they can't stand seeing the person they're drawing without eyes.
"Eyes are what makes the person come alive. If you put them in first, your drawing will turn out worse than if you put the eyes in last. Because if you put the eyes in first, you slack on the rest of the drawing because the eyes already look like them. But if you put the eyes in last, you will already have made everything else look like them. When you put the eyes in, it completes them," I explained quickly.
"Yes, that's exactly it!" Ty tapped me on the shoulder in agreement. I think he was happy that it was clear to him now... >_> :)

We talked for a few minutes more, then he went and signed the posters for the two women. He came back and we talked about some personal stuff. Ty asked me if I ever thought about being a tattoo artist. I told him, "No, but I have designed a tattoo for a character in my sister's book."

Then Ty called the three of them back so I can give/show them the two huge paintings. I had them placed together face to face, so I pulled out the one they'd see first. It was the one I wanted signed because it was the album cover and not the painting of the three of them.

Steve's signature is on the right bottom corner (right above my signature), with Joel's right above it. Ty's next to her hair on the left hand side, and Trevor's right below the Welcome. Trevor signed his with 'T-Rawk, Thx! Thx!. YOU RULE!!'

Trevor was excited to be taking the painting of the three of them (Steve, Joel and Trevor) back to his studio. It's funny though. I noticed that Ty and Joel were more attracted to drawings, while Steve and Trevor were drawn more to paintings. I told Trevor that he could take the painting back to his studio, if it wasn't too much trouble taking it on flights. He said that it'd be no problem to take it back home. And that is where the final video ended :(.
Trevor thanked me again, than opened his arms for a hug, which I gladly took (hey! What can I say... It's Trevor). Joel came up and gave me a hug as well. Ty and I went to hug just as Eldra and Joel went to hug, so all four of us did a dodge-one-another move. Ty and I backed up so Joel could go through, laughed, then hugged! Ty also hugged Eldra, as I shook hands with Steve (I don't know why he didn't hug... but ok). We said our good-bye's as TFK exited the room. I noticed that TFK was out before us, and I told them so just as they left the room. Eldra and I gathered our things than, being the last fans there, exited ice level, and returned to the merchandise level.
We met up with our family again. Eldra and I milled around because the rest of our family were now waiting for TFK. We ended up walking into, Melanie, Chris, Bodan and Travis as they packed up their merch. The band greeted us. We talked for a few minutes, I took pictures of their bass player, and said our goodbye's. Meanwhile, my dad and brother were waiting for TFK. They told me this story after.
My dad was taking pictures of TFK, as my brother got them to sign his t-shirt. Because Trevor's voice was out, he only smiled and patted Goose on the shoulder. When Goose got to Ty, he asked him to sign his shirt. Ty nodded, smiled, and took the shirt. "This is the artist's brother," my dad said, pointing to Goose. Ty's eyes widened in recognition. "Your sister's amazing!!" he said in awe-struck voice. Goose and Dad laughed. Neither Goose or I remember what happened. My mom asked for a picture of us with the band. Goose stood beside Trevor, Eldra in front of Steve and Ty, with me being on Ty's right.
We thanked the band and, it being past midnight, headed for the exit of the building. Goose opened the door, and who should be walking behind us, but Bodan. Carrying a heavy rubbermaid container filled with t-shirts. "Just keep that open," he called to Goose. So we end up walking and talking with Bodan. He said he couldn't wait to come back, so I told him that Chris was already planning on coming back to were I live next year. "OH! I can't wait for that!" he exclaimed. We say our final goodbye to him, and head for our vehicle.
Because my aunt and uncle joined up with us about half way through the show, we ended up talking with them for another twenty minutes before finally getting in our vehicle. Then drove for a half hour to get home.
Eldra and I didn't get into bed until after 2AM!!

GAAAA!!! It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!! I arrived with 15 pieces of artwork, and left with 8. I LOVE IT!!!! :)

I wish I could have filmed the entire experience from start to finish, but, alas, it doesn't work that way. But there you have it! It. Is. FINISHED!!

I may eventually post the videos somewhere, so you awesome people can see the reactions. I don't know.

A week later, I posted the pictures on Facebook, and Travis, Bodan and Melanie used my drawings for their profile pictures! Not only that, but Travis's wife told me that their getting my drawing framed and it's getting hung somewhere in their house.

THEN, Melanie (Manafest's wife), did a blog post on her blog, about my drawings, and that the band wanted to thank me for them. AMAZING!! I didn't think that this one concert would've become this big!!

And I'm not bragging, I'm just really excited and want to share it with you.

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Hi, I'm a younger artist who is trying to please my Father, God, with my artwork. I am planning to get into graphic design in a few years.
I'm also helping my sister, Eldra, with her book. Currently, I have decided on making a visual dictionary that is based off of her book. How the characters look, what weapons they use, planets, vehicles etc...etc...etc.
In the past 4 years I have come to love snowboarding. One of my dreams is to do works of art (people usually) and have them shown to the person I have done. That dream has been fulfilled at YC Alberta 2010 by Trevor McNevan of TFK and Chris Greenwood from Manafest. But it is only the beginning of the works that I have created using the gift God, my heavenly Father, has given to me. I try to use it to glorify Him. :D
Oh and please ignore any mistakes you find in my blog posts. After all, I'm not the writer in my family :) I leave that up to Eldra.